Saturday, July 9, 2011

CAS-ual Friday's (Shaped Cards) -- CFC #10

Last evening, I was looking at different blogs that I have saved to my favorites and I came across the casual Friday blog. I wanted to see what their challenge was for this week and when I saw that it was for shaped cards, I decided that I wanted to take part in this challenge. I have a Cricut machine and several cartridges; so, I began looking through the cartridges that have shapes which would be good for shaped cards. After spending about 45 minutes, I narrowed down my choice to the Walk in My Garden Cartridge and I picked the turtle for my shaped card.
I cut the pieces for the turtle out of Stampin Up Confetti White paper. The shadow portion of the turtle was inked with Bundled Sage and Old Paper distress ink. The body of the turtle was inked with Tea Dye distress ink and then after I applied heat to to dry the paper, I stamped over the body of the turtle with Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain S5208 with clear Versa Mark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. The turtles shell was inked with Bundled Sage and Forest Moss. Once the ink was dried, I stamped the Design Block Tree S5037 (Hero Arts) with Versa Mark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. After all the pieces were finished. I assembled the card. For the finishing touches, I tied a small tag (that I stamped the word Hi) around the turtle’s neck. The word Hi comes from the Happy Hello stamp set CL231 by Hero Arts.


This card was a lot of fun to make and now I am ready to make more shaped cards. To check out the CAS-ual Friday's blog, please go here. Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate the comments.

10 comments:

Barb said...

What an absolutely adorable card, Sue! Love the way this turned out! Great job! Hope you weekend is going well! Hugs! :)

Virginia L. said...

Oh... Sue! This is so very CUTE!! I have Cricut and I have never used it yet! (I know, shame on me!). You make me want to dig it out from the box!! I love how you colored it with distress inks! Thanks so much for playing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

Maureen Morton said...

Soooooo darn cute, Sue! Love this little guy. A perfect shape for a card. Great inking and such a cute smile.

Elena said...

he's darling - I love the woodgrain texture on his little body :)

Stephanie said...

Cute card! I love the texture and inking.

Pam said...

LOVE the turtle!!! It makes me think of how Megan pronounced "turtle" when she first started to talk! Such a cute card, Mom!!! :)

Jenny said...

I love this little turtle too. The colours are great :)
Jenny x

Naomi said...

I {heart} this!

Karolyn at Paper Therapy said...

Super cute - gotta love your Cricut, right?!! Love everything about this! Thanks so much for playing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!!

Laura Davis said...

I love this little turtle, so cute!
Thanks for playing at CAS-ual Fridays!
Laura